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Crossings / Louisiana / Shreveport

Shreveport
Louisiana.

Public crossings77at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates53%25 with no active device
Under a whistle ban0as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents20Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 77 public at-grade railroad crossings in Shreveport, LA, operated by 2 railroads. 8 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

Union Pacific Railroad Company operates 48 of the crossings here, 62% of the total, ahead of Kansas City Southern Railway Company at 29.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (77).

RailroadCrossingsShare
Union Pacific Railroad Company4862%
Kansas City Southern Railway Company2938%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at LA 511 West 70th Street on Union Pacific Railroad Company is credited with 20 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 77 is 4. These are counts the operating railroad reported to the FRA, not measurements, and a crossing's figure can be several years old.

The highest timetable speed recorded at any crossing here is 60 mph.

Warning devices

41 of the 77 crossings carry gates and 11 have flashing lights without gates. 25 (32%) have neither, which means crossbucks, a stop sign, or no marking the inventory records at all. The inventory describes equipment, not how a crossing performs.

Horns and quiet zones

No crossing here is recorded under a whistle ban, so trains sound the standard horn pattern on approach.

Incident history

Form 57 records 20 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 4 deaths and 11 injuries. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • Mansfield Road — 4 reported incidents
  • West 70th Street/LA511 — 2 reported incidents
  • Alto Vista Street — 2 reported incidents
  • Malcolm Street — 2 reported incidents
  • E 85th St — 1 reported incident

What this page is not

This is a summary of a federal inventory, not a measurement and not a rating. RailContext does not score crossings, streets or towns, and nothing here says a crossing is safe or unsafe, or that a neighbourhood is quiet or loud. Train counts are estimates the operating railroad filed, sometimes years ago, and a quiet zone does not guarantee silence.

To see the individual crossings nearest one address rather than a whole city, use the address check.

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